Tracking of antibiotic resistance transfer and rapid plasmid evolution in a hospital setting by Nanopore sequencing
Silke Peter, Mattia Bosio, Caspar Groß, Daniela Bezdan, Javier Gutierrez, Philipp Oberhettinger, Jan Liese, Wichard Vogel, Daniela Dörfel, Lennard Berger, Matthias Marschal, Matthias Willmann, Ivo Glynne Gut, Marta Gut, Ingo B. Autenrieth, Stephan Ossowski
The paper uses Nanopore sequencing to track antibiotic resistance plasmid evolution and transfer between bacterial species in a hospital setting, identifying plasmid fusion and gene rearrangements.
mSphere · Aug 18, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics